Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] [verb] [been] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean I I 'd having been these comments and yes there are a couple of extra points put in there I think that that 's fine . |
| 2 | Emma had mounted the first step of the stairs and she was unwinding her scarf when she turned and looked down on her mother , saying , ‘ I would have been many things if I had been brought up in peace . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ To the pigs with the slops , where you should have been this mornin' , ’ replied his wife . |
| 4 | She might have been any age between thirty and sixty and Wexford set the lower limit so low only because of her young children . |
| 5 | She could have been any girl in any photograph . |
| 6 | She could have been any age , for though her face was weathered by the sun , no wrinkles marred her face . |
| 7 | Melanie wondered how old she was but there was no way of telling ; she could have been any age between twenty-five and forty . |
| 8 | Just as , er just as well you did n't go out because erm you could have been half way out there in the plane or whate when erm |
| 9 | It may have been that while in Japan he found the taste of humble pie just a little too much to stomach . |
| 10 | At that time the Particular Baptists were meeting in a private house and it may have been that fact rather than family disagreements on doctrinal issues which led to her being baptized at Netherfield Independent chapel on 6 August 1817 . |
| 11 | It may have been these factors that encouraged the Court to give a restrictive opinion on the powers of the member States . |
| 12 | It may have been this connection that took him to Nottinghamshire in 1580 , to work for Arundell 's brother-in-law , Sir Francis Willoughby , at Wollaton Hall . |
| 13 | It may have been this group Professor Ashton had in mind when he drew attention to the way in which London banks played a role in making available the " savings of agriculturalists ' to provide " much of the investment in manufacture " . |
| 14 | It should have been that thing squared and now we then having worked it out that far , |
| 15 | D' you remember I showed you a manuscript — it must 've been some years ago , now — purporting to be by some mariner who remembered an English cargo boat having gone down between us , here at Møn , and Malmo — during the First Schleswig War ? |
| 16 | It must have been that day or the next , Adam thought , that he or one of them , surely he , had first suggested the commune idea . |
| 17 | An uncommonly good lunch it must have been that day . |
| 18 | Others said it must have been that girl who worked here , the one who was the German officer 's mistress , she knew everything that was going on around here . |
| 19 | ‘ It must have been some idea the architect had . |
| 20 | It must have been Good it must have been some sort of carbonate , and the salt that was formed was from the hydrochloric acid was calcium chloride , so it must have been ? |
| 21 | I think it must have been some sort of |
| 22 | I was surprised to see that the recording venue was good old Abbey Road Studios : there is such a prominent background rumble that I had assumed it must have been some city church . |
| 23 | It must have been some time after we had last met . |
| 24 | It must have been some time in August when I took those pictures , Rufus thought , and a couple of weeks later it was all over . |
| 25 | And it must have been some comfort to her , a few months later , to receive a picture of Anna , healthy , happy , as she could never have been in the orphanage . |
| 26 | It must have been some force to knock the fences down . ’ |
| 27 | It must have been some challenge to oversee that . |
| 28 | Yeah , cos it was you with erm well it must have been some years ago . |
| 29 | It must have been some bender ! |
| 30 | It must have been another gift . ’ |